- 6 years ago Sticky: Welcome to the /t/BES tribe! What exactly is this place?
- 6 years ago Sticky: Run a blog, vlog, or podcast? Start your own community like this one (but based on your topic of expertise/choice) and utilize the concept of “strength in numbers” to help you in awesome ways never before available.
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Why the Internet Didn’t Kill Zines
Their resilience shows the limitations of the web as a place to nurture young creativity.
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Writers eyes and readers eyes are not the same. 3 more killer writing tips.
When your fingers are on the keyboard, your focus is the writing. But when you hit publish? A new hope takes wings. Please let them like this… If we truly were writing for ourselves, why would we publish? We’d save it for ourselves, hoarding words in dog eared notebooks or hidden on hard drives. Writer’s eyes and reader’s eyes aren’t the same.
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Weekly Roundup | Business and Economy: Top 20 stories of the week of Feb 20 - 27th, 2017
"It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." - Mark Cuban
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The case for going to bed at 2:30 am
There’s nothing virtuous about "early to bed, early to rise."
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The Rise (and Fall?) of Food Writing
Readers are hungrier than ever for restaurant reviews, chef profiles, and gustatory travel writing. But who’s going to pay for it?
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What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It
It’s common to feel tired after a long day at work or to need a holiday after a month-long sprint to finish a new feature. But sadly it’s also common to feel tired all the time. To lack enthusiasm about your work. To feel cynical and disengaged from what you do.
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Seven Things to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up on Writing
Should you just stop writing? Is it taking up your time, taking up your energy, taking up your life … and not giving anything back? Most writers go through times when they feel like giving up. It’s a normal and natural, if difficult, stage in the writing life...
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67 Rules for All Writers to Live By
The most important rule: Don’t waste your readers’ time.
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How to Write Faster: 10 Crafty Ways to Hit 1,000 Words Per Hour
If time is tight, or you're paid by the hour, learning to write faster can make a huge difference. These tips from a veteran freelance writer show you how.
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Meet the journalist who invented sports blogging a century ago
To those who think sports blogging is an invention of the modern era, guess again. Ring Lardner beat Bill Simmons and others like him by about 80-90 years.
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Blog Enhancement Suite: How to grow your tribe using your unlimited invite codes
Your arsenal of invite codes can play a key role in the early promotion of your tribe. As a tribe leader you have access to an endless supply of them, 20 active codes (per tribe), at any given time. Each invite code is unique and can create one account. This guide goes into invite codes, their advantages, and how you can use them to effectively promote and grow your Snapzu community.
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Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes?
Asian American photographer says some digital foodies are playing into racist stereotypes about ethnic dishes.
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Our experiments taught us why people troll
You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?
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Ten Simple Ways to Improve Any Blog Post in Minutes
Are your blog posts as good as you want them to be? Perhaps you don’t seem to get many comments or shares. Or maybe your recent posts are great, but you feel like your older ones are lacking something. You don’t need to rewrite each post from scratch to improve it. Often, a few small tweaks can make a dramatic difference. Here are ten of my favorites to try out today...
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Weekly Roundup | Health and Body: Top 20 stories of the week of March 7 - 14th, 2017
"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body." - Harry J. Johnson
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Blog Enhancement Suite: How to grow your tribe using your referral URL
Your tribe's referral URL is the only direct link that allows new members to join your community in a manner that is as friction-less as possible and without a required invite. Utilize it on your blog, your social channels, and any other places to efficiently grow your member base and earn referrals that will earn you a 50/50% split on all revenues.This guide outlines important information on how to use your referral URL to effectively and responsibly promote your tribe and grow a bustling community that will soon be the heart of your blog.
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Irresistible Reading: Psychology’s 6-Tip Guide to Great Writing
Great writing is a lifetime pursuit - but when you don't have a lifetime and have to write blog posts now, then we've got a strategy for you.
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Australian blogger Belle Gibson found guilty of misleading consumers after faking cancer
Justice Debbie Mortimer said Gibson was guilty of most, but not all charges levied against her.
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Hard Work is The Single Greatest Competitive Advantage
Nobody is great without work. Hard work is always the baseline of great achievements. Nothing spectacular comes without it.
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Five months as a published blogger/writer/whatever I am.
I’m hitting the five-month mark as a published whatever I am. Some say I’m a blogger, some say I’m a writer, I say I’m an aspiring journalist filling many shoes right now.